Buyer - 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

5 months ago

Wolverhampton, United Kingdom Eurofins UK NSC Full time

Company Description
**Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate.**

**Eurofins is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across the entire network of Eurofins companies.**

**Job Description**:
**Working hours are Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm. This is a 12 Month Fixed Term Contract.**

**This is a hybrid working position, 2-3 days spent working in Wolverhampton and the remainder of the week working from home.**
- To deliver purchasing projects which ensure value is added in terms of cost, quality, delivery and service.
- To analyse spend data and formulate a purchasing category strategy for specific projects. Plans are to include, but are not limited to:

- market and supplier analysis
- defining and approving purchasing strategy
- executing through tender and benchmarking exercises
- contract formulation and award.
- conducting regular supplier contract negotiations and supplier performance reviews
- To implement the category strategy plans to achieve planned outcomes and in a way that meets the local and Group business needs.
- To deliver a professional and efficient Purchasing service to the labs and managing key stakeholders internally and suppliers externally.
- To liaise with internal departments to ensure an excellent level of service is provided whilst ensuring adherence to purchasing policies and procedures.
- To obtain significant cost savings on defined scope of consumables, equipment and services for Eurofins companies with increasing level of product quality, service and delivery.
- To drive standardization and rationalization of the product and supplier base, in close conjunction with your internal clients.
- To manage relationships with suppliers to negotiate the best contract conditions.
- To carry out site visits to review Purchasing Activity with business stakeholders as required.
- To maintain purchasing data base (supplier master files, item pricing files, etc).
- To carry out any other tasks as may be deemed necessary by the line manager.

**Qualifications**:

- Proven experience of working in a strategic purchasing role.
- Strong negotiation and analytical skills with proven experience of tendering and cost management.
- High energy, ‘can-do’ attitude with drive and a passion to win.
- Performance driven mind-set to deliver within agreed deadlines. Project management skills preferable.
- Effective communication skills (verbal and written) with the ability to engage, collaborate and influence.
- A customer focused approach to meet the business needs and alignment on priorities.
- Supplier relationship management expertise, including performance reviews.
- Good knowledge of purchasing systems and procedures.
- Experience with Coupa (preferable but not essential) or other purchasing systems (e.g.SAP).
- IT literacy with working knowledge of Microsoft office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and PowerBi.

Additional Information
**Benefits**

At Eurofins we are growing, innovating and always learning. We celebrate the achievements of our employees through annual long service awards, recognise our colleagues special life events, and we are committed to charitable causes through global fundraising activities.

As a Eurofins employee you will benefit from:

- Holiday Purchase Scheme
- Life Assurance (4 times annual salary)
- Company Pension Plan
- Employee Assistance Programme - 24/7 confidential support.
- Free car parking
- Worldwide career opportunities
- Everyone who joins our team also gets access to Perkbox, allowing you to save money all year round. Whether its supermarket savings or days out, the daily coffee or a summer holiday - there’s something to suit everyone’s lifestyle.

**What Happens Next**

Our people are the backbone of what we do, so it's incredibly important we find the right individuals to join us. As a potential new recruit you'll be invited to meet the team to give you the opportunity to see what working for Eurofins is really like and enable us to get you know your key skills and strengths.

**Application Tips**

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